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Q055
Fairmile
Motor
Launch
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ML Q055
Source: Flickr photo collection of Don
Gorham
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Laid down: 24
Mar
1941
Launched: 20
Oct 1941
Delivered to the RCN:
06 Nov 1941
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Removed
from service: 12 Jun 1945
Fate
Sold in 1945. Final disposition unknown
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Q055 was delivered to the RCN on 06 Nov 1941.
While she flew the White Ensign, she was not commissioned into the
RCN but instead was listed as a tender to HMCS SAMBRO, the depot
ship for escorts (tenders were not commissioned vessels). In Jan 1944 and Apr 1945, Q055 was listed as part of the 71st ML
Flotilla. She was was sold in 1945.
Photos and Documents
Commanding Officers
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Sub/Lt C.T.W. Hyslop,
RCNVR - 29 Oct 1941 - ?? Dec 1941
Lt Frederick Neil Greener,
RCNVR - 19 Apr 1942 - 11 Dec 1942
Lt Frederick Neil
Greener, RCNVR - 07 Jan 1943 - unk
Lt Frederick Neil Greener,
RCNVR - 29 Mar 1943 - 14 Jan 1944
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Lt Ronald Wurtele Rankin,
RCNVR - 29 Mar 19 43 - 14 Jan 19 44
A/Lt John Ernest White,
RCNVR - 15 Jan 1944 - 14 Sep 1944
Lt A. Budge,
RCNVR - 15 Sep 1944 - Unk
Lt Robert George Spence,
RCNVR - 25 Apr 1945 - 12 Jun 1945 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
Former Crew Members
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Allan,
Richard John Murray, SLt, RCNVR - 08 Jul 1943
Anderson,
Edwin Utley, SLt, RCNVR - 29 Mar 1943
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Gratton,
Joseph John Rene, SLt, RCNVR - 17 Feb 1944
Rankin,
Ronald Wurtele, SLt, RCNVR - 05 Jun 1942
Smith,
John McSwain, SLt, RCNVR - 25 Apr 1945 |
Photos
and Documents
(RC077-RC079) ML Q055 under construction / fitting out
(RC080)
ML Q055 under construction / fitting out // Click
here for a closer view of the pendant number stenciled on the hull
Photographer: Roy T. Cardy
From the collection of Roy T. Cardy
Courtesy of Dennis Cardy
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